Project Details
Context
Our Client is a US Major and leader in biotechnology serving millions of patients world-wide. The plant, in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, is a 37,000 square-metre facility with freeze dry product and liquid vial-filling operations. With some employee workloads causing excessive overtime and work-life imbalances the intervention of Tecknic permitted a detailed analysis of the Job designs in their current form in two departments.
Labour Cost Reduction
Waste Reduction
Total Annualised Savings of Over €1800,000
Return On Investment After One Year 5:1
- Clients: Leader in Biotechnology
- Solution:Complete Life Cycle Project Management, Planning and Communication
- Date:2018
- Sector:Biotechnology
Objectives and Scope
- Assess existing processes and implement process improvements
- Target reduce overtime and improve work-life balance
- Review job descriptions against actual activities & conduct gap analysis
- Evaluate current job design & determine fitness for purpose
- Create a new job design with improved productivity of the team and reduced overtime
Tecknic's Role
- Engaging, supporting and developing the management team alongside the project deliverables.
- Specific training programmes tailored to meet the needs of the teams
- Complete life cycle Project management, Planning and Communication
- Application of Lean process improvement tools & techniques
- Overall Operations excellence support to include “soft” side best practice
- Manage stakeholder relationships
Achievements
- Decreased total hours worked during project period
- Developed new cross -department structure in line with findings
- Reduced employee input costs and improved productivity.
- Transferred knowledge and identified opportunities in people processes and employee relations to support the change process
- Processes improved & jobs redesigned.
- Rebalanced workloads & improved development of teams